Current mood:

enthralled

Blogging props
I've been blogging for just over a week, and in addition to some very kind words from friends, I've already managed to garner a little bit of attention from real biblical scholars whose work I respect and admire. This is a much better response than I could have hoped for and makes me very happy. For so long I've been slogging through the posts on my email list, feeling like I'm always the wet blanket, the person who always responds negatively to everything. Either that or that I just don't have anything in common with folks there. So starting The Magdalene Review was, in part, a way I saw to discuss the kinds of things I want to discuss in the way I want to discuss them. That other people whose opinions I respect find my posts interesting is a bonus.

There has been a bit of a controversy in the blogosphere lately over something called "biblioblogging," which is, basically, the practice of blogging about Biblical studies. This is something that was going on before last week when I came online. Part of the controversy is that there are very few female bibliobloggers. In a post about the whole matter, I am paid a compliment:

Perhaps one reason it's not so much of a problem with me is because of Lese Bellevie's Magdalene Review blog (link above) and classicist Glaukopides blog which I read with the same regularity as the rest on my blog roll. They're living proof that blogs can be kept consistently academic-related and by females at once.